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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 175, 29 March 1915, Page 3

'•'You could not be robed more honourably,” said Ins Honour Judge Short*’ at Rochester County Court, to Mr. Failure, solicitor, who explained his appearance in the uniform of lieutenant commander of Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. Lieut.--Colonel Driscoll, whose name will be remembered by those who fought in the South African campaign, where he was in charge of a regiment of men known as ‘' Driscoll’s Scouts,” is at present raising 1000 men in London for active service. On the first clay- of the appeal- 150 names were registered’. Pat was trying, to, give a definition of the thinness of an acquaintance. “Share,” he remarked to a freind, “you’re thin and I’m thin, but he’s thinner than both av us put together. Occasionally one hears of a remarkable number of seeds being produced from a single grain (writes the Wendon correspondent of the Mataura Ensign). The writer had brought under his notice an increase of Clarion oats produced from a single grain grown by Mr. George Tayles’ farm there. There were five stalks of corn, each stalk 'averaging over 200 oat pods, or a total of over 1000 pods. As each pod contains two or three oats —that is, a first, second, and sometimes ; a ; third-.-it will be seen that from flits' single seed were i obtained between 2000 and 2000, oats I that would grow.' WANTED Known. SLY FIELD’S Gent’s Clothing and Mercery (Sample ,Rooms, next Nieholls’ Picture Theatre, cannot bo beaten for value.*

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